How It Works
“Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.” BB p58
Living Steps and Traditions
Our Design for Living
Tradition 5
19 events found.
Step 1
“We admitted that we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable” 12×12 p21
Tradition 1
“Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon AA unity” 12 x 12 p133
How It Works
“Next we launched out on a course of vigorous action, the first step of which is a personal housecleaning, which many of us had never attempted.” BB p63
Step 2
“Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Into Action p72 – p76 (Steps 5, 6 & 7)
“Having made our personal inventory, what shall we do abut it?”
Step 3
“Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”
Tradition 3
“The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.”
Into Action p 76 – 84 (Steps 8 and 9)
“Now we need more action, without which we find that “Faith without works is dead”.”
Step 4
“Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.”
Tradition 4
“Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.”